As you can well imagine, the idea of “retirement” did not exist in Roman times, nor medieval times, and certainly not when Pilgrims discovered America. What about during the days of Lewis & Clark? Or when the wild West was being settled? History teaches...
Experts think that any of us living today, who reaches age 65, healthy and vibrant, will easily make it to age 100. Whoa! That will change things financially, to say the least. In the “old days,” between 1960 and 1980, people who reached retirement age...
The oldest Boomer was born in 1946, just after World War II and is age 70 today. The youngest Boomer was born in 1964 and is age 52 today. There are 78,000,000 Boomers that make up 29 percent of the U.S. population. Those are the statistics, so what do they mean to...
While it is true that the U.S. has one of the highest life expectancies of any country in the world, it’s also true that our quality of life as we age is one of the worst. That’s because even though the average age of death for a U.S. male is 84 and a...
The cost of living is always a big concern, but as we age some items skyrocket! Here is a list for your review during your Social Security benefit planning of what goes into this calculation: Food and beverage………will stay the same at retirement...
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